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...Tuesday morning - 61 years after Japan surrendered to end World War II. He followed a white-robed Shinto priest into the shrine's inner hall, worshipped briefly and departed, the entire 10-minute visit carried live by Japanese TV. Behind him Koizumi left white chrysanthemum flowers, a donor plate that identified him as "Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi" - and five years of steadily worsening relations with neighbors China and South Korea, which view Yasukuni as a celebration of Japanese militarism...
...extensive influence on the University, he said. But his friends said that he did not seem self-conscious about his last name.Lamont was a fourth generation legacy student whose great-grandfather—Thomas W. Lamont, class of 1892—was a partner at J.P. Morgan and the donor who gave Lamont Library its name.Lamont’s first-year roommate, Frank D. McPhillips ’76, said that he recalls several times when Ned Lamont would be leaving their room in Mower and say, “‘I’m headed...
Lamont was a fourth generation legacy student whose great-grandfather—Thomas W. Lamont, class of 1892—was a partner at J.P. Morgan and the donor who gave Lamont Library its name...
...Still, those exiles will clamor for some sort of compensation from a democratic transition government -payments the U.S., ironically, could end up bankrolling as a major aid donor. They could be similar, say U.S. officials, to reparations made in post-communist Eastern Europe, which in some cases let original home or building owners regain title to their property as long as they agreed to let the current occupants stay under a rent control agreement; and given Cuba's economic ruin, those who do regain industrial or commercial properties may be required to pump new investment into them...
...Even Pyongyang's friends have proved fickle. Last week, South Korean newspapers reported that China, the North's closest ally, largest trading partner and aid donor, had frozen North Korean assets held in the Macau branch of the Bank of China. Beijing's clampdown, which took place last year, followed a similar freeze on about $24 million of Pyongyang's cash in another Macau bank-Banco Delta Asia-which the U.S. claimed was funneling money the North earns from drug smuggling and counterfeiting...